Her background surfaces even as Jewish groups mostly silent on wider nomination battle.

06/29/2010 - 20:00

James D. Besser

Washington Correspondent

A Jewish community divided over key constitutional questions is watching closely but mostly silently as a hyper-partisan Senate debates President Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to succeed the retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens — and as hints that the nominee’s Jewishness is being used against her surface.